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We are delighted to feature an interview with Jonathan Gomez. Jonathan is the Director of Capital Markets at Lendinvest, the leading peer-to-peer marketplace for property lending and investing. What attracted you to joining the team at Lendinvest? They have huge aspirations for the firm which resonated strongly with me. I was really keen to be part …

AltFi has published an article written by LCN Legal’s Marsili Hale entitled ‘How online lending platforms can put in place the back-up servicing arrangements they need’. AltFi is the world’s leading news site for the fast growing alternative finance sector. This article includes key contributions from lending platforms Funding Circle and …

LCN Legal has announced the publication of a new free resource for P2P and marketplace lending platforms and loan servicers: a checklist of key commercial terms for back-up servicing arrangements. A key feature of the Financial Conduct Authority’s approach to regulating online lending platforms is to require that they have a back-up plan in place. …

We are delighted to feature an interview with Andrew Jackson. Andrew is Head of Collections & Recoveries at Funding Circle, the marketplace lending platform which allows investors to lend to businesses in the UK, USA, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. How did you get into law? I studied biology at university, and thought that it would be cool …

We are delighted to feature an interview with Godfrey Blight, Director of Capita Mortgage Services – Europe’s largest independent loan servicer. How did you get into mortgage servicing? I was approached by the private equity firm that owned Crown Mortgage Management at the time to look at strategic options for the business (one being to …

Understanding how the day-to-day servicing (including the back-up servicing) of a loan portfolio will work operationally is key to successful loan origination and management. If a third party servicer is chosen to provide this function, the agreement governing the servicing of the loan portfolio should be drafted with input from the teams who will be …